“International Law Firm of the Year”
in the Czech Republic at the Chambers Europe
Awards for Excellence, 2014.
Named “Law Firm of the Year” in the Czech
Republic at the International Financial Law Review (IFLR) Annual European Awards, 2014.
Being named the only law firm in the Czech
Republic to be ranked Tier 1 in all practice
areas ranked in both the Legal 500 and IFLR
1000 in 2014.
Received the most Tier 1 and individual lawyer rankings out of all law firms in the Czech
Republic in Chambers Europe and Chambers
Global in 2014.
Named

White & Case is one of the largest law firms in
the Czech Republic – Over 50 lawyers and tax advisors, including 14 partners and 7 counsel. Our
team includes lawyers qualified in the Czech Republic, England and Wales, the Slovak Republic
and New York.
Many of the leading mandates we have handled
over the last 12 months year have included substantial cross-practice advice as noted below in the
selected matter highlights. Our ability to bring to
bear top flight experience in all core areas of practice is of substantial commercial benefit to clients.
Our lawyers have been involved in transactions
in more than 25 countries in the last 12 months,
including high-profile mandates in the following regional jurisdictions – Germany, Bulgaria,
Slovenia, Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Poland,
Slovakia, Hungary and Turkey. By way of example, in mergermarket’s H1 2014 results, White &
Case was ranked Number One legal advisor by
deal volume to CEE M&A deals. Please see below
for significant regional matters our team has had
alead role on.
Our M&A practice has been the most active in the
Czech market in the last twelve months as mergermarket has White & Case as the #1 legal advisor
for M&A work in the Czech Republic by deal
volume in the last 12 months. This means no law
firm in the Czech Republic has completed more
large scale M&A transactions in the Czech Republic than White & Case over this period.

White & Case has the largest and most experienced
bank finance team in the Czech Republic and has
completed more than 120 financing transactions
in the last twelve months. As demonstrated below,
we played a leading role on the largest financing
ever executed in the Czech Republic and many of
deals executed by our team include first-of-a-kind
structures and bringing global best practice bank
finance techniques to clients operating here. This
includes being the only law firm in Prague with
the local capability to offer Czech, English and US
law expertise on all types of financings including
senior, mezzanine and high-yield financings.

Selected Significant Public
Matters within last 12 months
Our strengths in the Czech Republic have led us
to an excellent last twelve months, as one can see
from the multiple multi-billion dollar headline
mandates outlined below. We have achieved these
results despite one of the toughest markets for
decades. We believe the twelve items below best
highlight our strength as a legal service provider
in the Czech Republic.
A multi-practice team, led by our banking team
represented Societe Generale as coordinating mandated lead arranger and then Citibank Europe plc,
Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank,
Československá obchodní banka, a.s., Deutsche
Bank AG, London Branch, ING Bank N.V., The
Royal Bank of Scotland plc and UniCredit Bank
Austria AG as further mandated lead arrangers in
connection with the financing of the acquisition
by PPF Group of Telefonica Czech Republic, the
leading mobile, fixed-line and IPTV operator in the
Czech Republic and Slovakia. The total amount of
the financing was €2.288 billion. The Telefonica
transaction was in many ways the first transaction
of this kind in the Czech Republic.
White & Case’s M&A, financing, TMT, IP and
tax teams advised Avast Software, one of the
world‘s major players in the antivirus market, and
a selling shareholder consortium on the sale of
a significant minority stake to CVC Capital Partners, one of the world‘s leading private equity and
investment advisory firms. Supporting the successful